Irina Ilovaiskaya

December 5, 1924 (age 75)

Belgrade, Belgrade City, Serbia

As a student at a Russian religious school under Metropolitan Anastasius, she spent years studying religion and maintaining the altar. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti"s spiritual father in those years was the prominent Orthodox theologian priest Georgy Florovsky. She moved back to Russia in 1991. She developed close friendships with a number of leading intellectuals and religious figures, including Academician Andrei Sakharov, Alain Besançon, Pope John Paul II, Malcolm Pearson, Baroness Caroline (Caroline) Cox, Vladimir Pribylovsky, Georgy Chistyakov and Natalia Solzhenitsyn. During the last twenty years of her life, Ilovaiskaya-Alberti was Chief Editor of the newspaper "Russian Thought". Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian Thought garnered a broad readership throughout the world and especially in Russia. The newspaper gained a following among a number of the world"s leading politicians, sociologists, religious leaders, and social scientists. lieutenant was in articles in Russian Thought that Ilovaiskaya-Alberti coined the phrase "new Russian", ascribing to it the phrase"s current meaning. The phrase was created as a play on nouveau riche - nuvoryus (fr Nouveau riche - "new rich", Nouveau Russe - "new Russian"). One of Ilovaiskaya-Alberti"s goals in the latter years of her life was to increase the readership of the Russian Thought newspaper in Russia itself. In June 1999, at the first International Congress of the Russian Press, Russian Thought was given by the President of Russia an award for principled reporting. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti founded the "Radio Blagovest" and "Christian Church and Social Channel"-"Radio Sofia" radio programs, which she used to conduct daily broadcasts. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti was also Vice President of the World Association of Russian Press (1999).

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She was born into a family who had left Russia for Serbia during the revolution.

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As a student at a Russian religious school under Metropolitan Anastasius, she spent years studying religion and maintaining the altar. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti"s spiritual father in those years was the prominent Orthodox theologian priest Georgy Florovsky. She moved back to Russia in 1991.

She developed close friendships with a number of leading intellectuals and religious figures, including Academician Andrei Sakharov, Alain Besançon, Pope John Paul II, Malcolm Pearson, Baroness Caroline (Caroline) Cox, Vladimir Pribylovsky, Georgy Chistyakov and Natalia Solzhenitsyn.

During the last twenty years of her life, Ilovaiskaya-Alberti was Chief Editor of the newspaper "Russian Thought". Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian Thought garnered a broad readership throughout the world and especially in Russia.

The newspaper gained a following among a number of the world"s leading politicians, sociologists, religious leaders, and social scientists. lieutenant was in articles in Russian Thought that Ilovaiskaya-Alberti coined the phrase "new Russian", ascribing to it the phrase"s current meaning.

The phrase was created as a play on nouveau riche - nuvoryus (fr Nouveau riche - "new rich", Nouveau Russe - "new Russian").

One of Ilovaiskaya-Alberti"s goals in the latter years of her life was to increase the readership of the Russian Thought newspaper in Russia itself. In June 1999, at the first International Congress of the Russian Press, Russian Thought was given by the President of Russia an award for principled reporting. Ilovaiskaya-Alberti founded the "Radio Blagovest" and "Christian Church and Social Channel"-"Radio Sofia" radio programs, which she used to conduct daily broadcasts.

Ilovaiskaya-Alberti was also Vice President of the World Association of Russian Press (1999).

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lieutenant dealt with world events and Russian life, particularly focusing on political, social, religious and cultural aspects. She viewed her primary goal as the assessment of world events in the light of the Christian faith.

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